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They pretty much all come from our - in-house certified "Scrum Master". He's got much better experience than - I do with building a real working backlog of stories and planning - sprints based on those stories. That being said, any opinions here are - my own and I don't speak on his behalf. - </p> - - <h2>Points as a Measure of Work</h2> - - <p> - In my understanding, points are approximate measures of the amount of - work required to complete a given story or task. I do not think points - correlate to an exact measure of time. I use them to determine the size - of a task in relation to another task. For example, a simple-looking - task may be allocated 1 point. In reality this 1 point may take 1 minute - or 1 hour to complete. The time it takes is less important than the - ratio of time it takes in comparison to a second given task. Say the - second task appears to take twice as much time as the first (however - much time that may be). The second task would therefore get 2 points. - </p> - - <p> - Some teams have a special system for incrementing points. Our team uses - the - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci#Fibonacci_sequence" - >Fibonacci sequence of numbers</a - >. So the smallest amount that can be allocated to a story is 1. Then it - goes 2, 3, 5, 8, and so on and so forth. If a single story is going to - use up 8 points, you should probably take a look at breaking it up into - smaller tasks. A single story shouldn't take up almost half of your - allocated work for a sprint. - </p> - - <h2>How Much is Enough?</h2> - <p> - Our team aims for 10 points per 2-week per sprint. Simple enough for me, - but the hard part is determining how many points to allocate to a given - task. - </p> - - <p> - One thing I could never figure out is what the recommended starting - position for 1 point looks like. I'm sure this is something that comes - from experience, and our Scrum Master helped us out with that. - </p> - - <ul> - <li> - 1 point: Small or basic text change. Updating configuration, fixing a - typo or cognitively simple bug. - </li> - <li> - 2 points: Task with light complexity. Some portions of code have to - change, be debugged, tested. - </li> - <li> - 3 points: Some complexity, will take time to implement. Potentially a - few days' worth of work. May require front- and back-end work, or - back-end and database work. - </li> - <li> - 5 points: Half a sprint's worth of more complicated work. Full-on - feature implementation for example. - </li> - </ul> - - <h2>Prioritizing Work</h2> - - <p> - I do not see points as indicative of the importance or priority of a - task or story. Just because one task will take longer to complete than - another does not mean it's more or less important to me. There should be - another method of gauging which stories should be taken off the backlog - first. For example, one story might depend on another. One might relate - to core functionality that a stakeholder has asked for. Another task - might be required to make code build because it solves some major - problem! - </p> - - <p> - To communicate how "important" a task is, every story we have is - prioritized something like this: - </p> - <ol> - <li>Critical</li> - <li>Blocker</li> - <li>Highest</li> - <li>High</li> - <li>Medium</li> - <li>Low</li> - <li>Lowest</li> - </ol> - - <p> - Tasks that align with some long-term project that management is waiting - on are tagged "Highest". Stories that prevent lots of other stories from - being completed may be labeled "Blocker". - </p> - - <h2>Sprint Planning/Backlog Refinement</h2> - - <p> - With all that in mind, at the start of the sprint I now take about 10 - points worth of priority work off of the backlog. I'll work through it - the whole sprint through and then, ideally, it'll all be complete by the - end of the sprint. If I bit off more than I could chew and the sprint - ends before I'm finished, the incomplete work rolls over to the next - sprint and is the first to be completed. If I find I've finished - everything I had to work on and there are still a couple of days left in - the sprint, I'll take one or two small items off the backlog and work on - those. - </p> - - <h2>Tools to Get the Job Done</h2> - - <p> - Our team uses Jira at work, and I know some folks love it so much - they've paid for a personal license. It's a bit overkill for my personal - projects, so I've been using Nextcloud's Deck plugin. This is an okay - solution but it doesn't integrate very well with source code - repositories (although it can tie into a Nextcloud "project", or a - collection of related files open to a team). I'm spinning up a Gitea - server to replace my <code>git-web</code> server soon and this is one of - the reasons for that. Gitea has a GitHub-style issue tracker where you - can create issues of various kinds, assign them to users, reference - commits to the source, and create a Kanban-style board of issues that - are on the backlog, to-do, in-progress, or done. - </p> - - <p> - I'm still learning how to keep to a Scrum-like process of some kind, - because I do see the benefit of using such a system, especially in a - team. I'm definitely not an expert though so some of what I've got here - may change over time. Right now it's working well and that's good enough - for me. - </p> - </article> - </body> -</html> |